Alan Avery: 9 books

This new fully, illustrated, history of Hull, in the United Kingdom, traces the story of the city from its beginnings as a haven for the transportation of goods to one of the main medieval harbours of England. The town was a key player in the Civil War of the seventeenth century and grew to become one...

The Story of London spans two thousand years of history and traces the origins of London from its beginnings as a Roman fort to one of the world’s great cities. Alan Avery studied history at Kings College London and is the author of The Story of York, The Story of Hull and The Story of Bradford.

These five one-act plays were written to stimulate debate in the faith community over such topics as the after-life (Stardust Melody), growing old (Now We Are Sixty), faith (The Word), pacifism (George Fox and Margaret Fell Get Stuck in a Lift) and Christian beliefs (One of that Despised People)....

This new history traces the development of Bradford from its first settlement in Anglo-Saxon times on the banks of the Bradford beck to the present day. For hundreds of years it was a small Pennine village associated with the making of cloth. Despite the disruption of the Civil War in the seventeenth...

Compiled by two internationally renowned experts, and with over 600 wide-ranging and informative entries, The Routledge Dictionary of Judaism provides the reader with an invaluable reference aid to all areas of the religion. Topics covered include: *The religion's forms and history *Its institutions,...

This new, full colour, history of York takes the reader from the foundation of York by the Romans in the first century AD to the present day, taking in Vikings, the Civil War and modern developments. When King George VI visited York in 1923 he proclaimed that 'The history of York is the history of England' and this ebook confirms that statement.

This book of British Historical Documents covers the period from 325 B.C. to 2006 A.D. with a selection of over one hundred key documents from Pytheas of Massalia to Tony Blair's farewell speech to the Labour Party in 2006. Whilst concentrating on the written word, examples of paintings, coins, cartoons and photographs are included as examples of the historian's sources.

The stories published in this ebook were chosen as the ten best from the many entries for the 2018 Ryedale Book Festival short story competition, sponsored by the Blackthorn Press. The authors range from the established writers to new-comers who are seeing their words in print for the first...

World Religions Religious Foundations of Western Civilization introduces students to the major Western world religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—their beliefs, key concepts, history, as well as the fundamental role they have played, and continue to play, in Western culture. Contributors...